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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida answers questions from journalists upon his arrival at the prime minister's office on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in Tokyo. (Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan to start releasing Fukushima plant’s treated radioactive water into sea as early as Thursday

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2019, file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), shows melted fuel taken by a telescopic robot inside of the primary containment vessel of Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Okuma, northeast Japan. Japan’s government and the operator of a wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 a removal of melted fuel will be postponed by about one year until late 2022 due to delayed development of a robotic arm in Britain amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via AP, File)

Melted fuel removal at Fukushima delayed by pandemic

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A guard opens the gate to the town in Futaba, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan at midnight Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Japan’s government partially lifted an entry ban for Futaba, the last town that remained off-limits since it was entirely forced to evacuate following the Fukushima nuclear disaster nine years ago. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan opens part of last town off-limits since nuclear leaks

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

China detains Japanese man, possibly on spying allegations

Associated Press

This general view shows a plenary session of upper house house after Eugenics Protection Law was passed in parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, April 25, 2019. Japan's government apologized to tens of thousands of victims forcibly sterilized under the now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law and promised to pay compensation. (Toshiyuki Matsumoto/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan apologizes to forcibly sterilized people, vows redress

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 1, 2019, photo, Kane Tanaka, who is honored as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records at 116, poses with new era name &quot;Reiwa,&quot; made of chocolate at a nursing home in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Tanaka was born in Meiji era, and will soon experience the fifth era, starting on May 1. (Ryosuke Uematsu/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan gov’t says era name translates as ‘beautiful harmony’

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A boat goes by cranes being used for the preparation work to relocate a U.S. Marine base to Henoko to dump large concrete blocks into sea along the shore in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Japan's government has started offshore construction work on relocating a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa. Monday's step marks the beginning of the main construction to move Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko, a less populated area on the island. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)

Offshore work begins on relocating US base on Okinawa

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa, right, looks up as Japan's Nuclear Crisis Minister Goshi Hosono, left, speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of TEPCO, the operator of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, shortly after Japan's prime minister announced that the nuclear plant has achieved a stable state of "cold shutdown," a crucial step toward the eventual lifting of evacuation orders and closing of the plant. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan releases 40-year nuke plant cleanup plan

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japan weakens yen to aid recovery, exports

By Christopher Johnson - Special to The Washington Times

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An aerial photo taken March 24 by a small unmanned drone shows Unit 4 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The relationship between government and industry is cozy.

Nuclear oversight: Trust, don’t verify

By YurI Kageyama and Justin Pritchard ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times